Mindy’s Daily Links – 3/15/09

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• Grass Mud Horse... (aka F*ck Your Mother)

  (Odd Stuff) The three Chinese characters for “grass mud horse (草泥马 cǎo ní mǎ)” look innocent enough. But pronounce them out loud and it sounds as if you’re saying… ‘F*ck Your Mother’ (操你妈 cào nǐ mā), a fairly common curse in Chinese.

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• F*ck Your Mother Ship, F*ck Censorship

  (Political News) "... a video about the 'cao ni ma,' or 'grass-mud horse,' an alpaca-like creature, accompanied by an excruciatingly catchy 'It's a Small World'-type children's song appeared on a Chinese web page and found its way onto YouTube..."

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• The grass-mud horse: Dirty pun tweaks China's online censors

  (Arts & Culture) Since its first unheralded appearance in January on a Chinese Web page, the grass-mud horse has become nothing less than a phenomenon. Not bad for a mythical creature whose name, in Chinese, sounds very much like an especially vile obscenity. Which is precisely the point.

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• (charlietest) Grass mud horse...

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• (trendscoutasia) 10 most popular internet memes in Asia. Our favourites are The Grass Mud Horse & The Flying Spaghetti Monster http://bit.ly/dsqCT3

  Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:05:51 +0000 | Reply | View Tweet

• (cupnoodleofdoom) Grass Mud Horse. - I will admire you if you get it. http://tumblr.com/xq57izkue

  Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:47:32 +0000 | Reply | View Tweet

• (tvnewswatch) Video on the GFW & the Grass Mud Horse [Youku] http://goo.gl/0MzZ

  Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:37:30 +0000 | Reply | View Tweet

• (tvnewswatch) Surfing with a 'Grass Mud Horse' (Alpaca) [Xinhua pic] http://goo.gl/JXHE

  Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:41:21 +0000 | Reply | View Tweet